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a beer let's talk some true crime foreign [Music] on November 29th 2005 in Morgantown West
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Virginia a respiratory therapist named Sean Alt wrapped up his overnight shift at Ruby
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Memorial Hospital all who was also a firefighter left the hospital and went home to shower before heading over to
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the Star City Fire Department to start his shift just after 8 A.M alt parked his truck in
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his driveway on Killarney Drive about a mile from the hospital and got out of his truck a trained firefighter he
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immediately recognized the smell of a house fire but visibly noticed nothing wrong with his own home or his
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neighbor's houses so he went inside showered and came back out at 8 20 A.M the smell was still
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there puzzled he Shrugged it off and he started his truck he drove to the four-way stop sign at
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Killarney and Eastern Avenue and as he stopped he saw his neighbor from four houses down
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Shelley Michael and her silver Ford Expedition with its six pack vanity plates Shelley backed out of her own driveway
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and she drove to the intersection stopping at the sign directly across from Alt alt knew Shelley's husband Jimmy Michael
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very well Alton Jimmy attended respiratory therapy school together and Shelley was a pediatric nurse
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practitioner in the same hospital that alt worked at but on this day Shelley did not
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acknowledge alt's raised hand wave on that morning Michelle Shelley Michael ignored Sean Alt and quickly sped off
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through the intersection and that was that but Sean's sighting of Shelley speeding away would soon change
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everything because this is a case of planned premeditated murder someone thought they
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could commit the perfect crime and get away with it this is true crime garage and this is the case Michelle Shelley
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Michael [Music] foreign [Music] 10 20 on the morning of Tuesday November 29th 2005 in the pouring rain two
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utility workers Monty and Rodney were driving along Killarney Drive in Morgantown West Virginia when Monty told
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Rodney to stop the vehicle Monty noticed that what looked like a house fire at number 545 observing smoke pouring from
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an upstairs window they called their dispatcher and told her to call 9-1-1 Monty ran to the house and banged on the
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door he could hear the smoke alarms and looking through a window he could see that one of the ground level ceilings
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had partially collapsed around this time an off-duty fireman Keith Summers ran up
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he too noticed that his neighbor's home was on fire Keith called 9-1-1 and tried
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to see if anyone was inside the home as he prepared to break a set of French doors at the rear of the house an
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explosion shattered the upstairs window and Flames shot out it was a flashover the time was 10 27 am one luckily the
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fire truck was only about a mile away at this point yeah the Morgantown fire department just happened to be very
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close they were in the area when that call came in Captain so 10 firefighters arrived at 545 Killarney Drive by 10 32
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a.m that's a five minute response time they kicked in the front door and they observed that the Flames were all on the
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upstairs level so nothing on the first floor the first floor was perfect except for the room with the collapsed ceiling
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well the collapse ceiling is coming from the master bedroom on the second floor that's correct the master bedroom was in
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such bad shape with the fire that the firefighters could not enter the room all they could do was
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stand at the doorway and spray the hose in and hope that the fire would die down
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right the entire room was burned to a crisp blackened every piece of furniture charred and destroyed firefighters stuck
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with it though training the hose on the bedroom and inspecting the rest of the house at the same time one relief to
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everyone on the scene was there was no immediate sign that anyone was in the house while this is going on a man named
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Bobby teats drove up to the home Bobby and his wife Kelly were best friends with the residents of 545 killarning
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Drive Jimmy and Shelley Michael Bobby and Jimmy worked together at Jimmy's new company this is Mountaineer Home Medical
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Supply and they also coached their son's football team together Shelley and Kelly
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were also close both coaching their daughter's cheer team Bobby drove over to the Michael's house
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that morning because no one could figure out where Jimmy Michael was and why he had not shown up at work right he was
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always at work by 7 30 a.m he's the kind of guy you can set your watch to his schedule his work schedule and in fact
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on that morning Captain Jimmy had an important installation appointment that morning and he missed it so this is
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something he certainly would not miss as a successful businessman and he was not
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answering his cell phone as well Bobby told the deputy Fire Marshal on the scene this is Lieutenant tenet that
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he thought Jimmy might be inside the home now they looked in the garage and sure
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enough Jimmy's vehicle was inside right and the other problem is the hottest spot or the most damaged spot is the
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master bedroom and who would sleep in that the husband and wife yeah so the lieutenant radioed to stop the
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firefighters inside from Wrecking the scene and told them to start looking for a body
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now crawling on the burned out floor in the pitch black room filled with smoke and steam the firefighters made their
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way to what little was left of the actual bed by this point it's just going to be the the Springs left of this
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mattress in the frame and there on top of the bed was a very badly burned body so badly
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burned that it had no hands the lower legs were gone and the skin was gone as well wow all
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that was recognizable as actually human was teeth presumably Jimmy Michael this is his body it almost seems like
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there was some kind of accelerant used in that room so now this went from being a house fire call
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to a death investigation at the same time Jimmy's wife Shelley Michael arrived on the scene
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now let's give a little background information on some of these characters that we've already introduced Michelle
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Goods was born to Michael and Kathy gootz on January 29 1972 in Clarksburg West Virginia
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she was a go-getter from the beginning straight A student a competitive cheerleader at just 100 pounds she was a
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tiny bombshell running track playing basketball and swimming on the swim team she was the president of the National
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Honor Society chapter at her school serving on the yearbook committee student council Key Club Spanish club
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and manager of the school store she did all the stuff that you and I failed to do
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yeah speaking for yourself you were the manager of the school store no no I never I don't even think I went into the
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school store four years of high school so with all of this activity it's easy to see that she was missed popularity
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and voted most likely to succeed a Shelley who she would later become known as that's her nickname Michelle
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gootz became Shelley Michael she went on to cheer at West Virginia University where she found herself pregnant by her
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boyfriend while she's still a student and the boyfriend was a fellow student as well named Bruce Atkins even though
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she and Bruce broke up Shelley had the baby a boy named Alec and continued to be enrolled at the WVU nursing program
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she then met Rob Angus and they married in 1995. so Rob adopted Alec her son and Shelley became pregnant
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again at eight and a half months pregnant she was caught shoplifting a baby pumpkin Halloween costume and it
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was the second time that she had been caught stealing from a store I guess the first time was a like a minor infraction
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back when she was a juvenile after having the new baby Shelley landed a coveted job as a nurse
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in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Ruby Memorial Hospital her marriage to Rob was Rocky and Shelley soon got a
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reputation for flirting with the men at work she was notorious for doing backflips in the hospital hallways
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always very professional when you see that yeah she a little desperate too yeah she enjoyed showing off and she by
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everyone's accounts loved the attention all the beautiful women out there you don't have to do backflips to get a good
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guy I you know how her I would be if I tried to do a backflip her supervisor Stephanie Michael recalled that Shelley
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was all about flirting at the hospital and Stephanie would soon learn that Shelly wasn't just flirting in fact
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Shelley set her sights on Stephanie's husband this was Jimmy Michael a respiratory
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therapist oh great Stephanie and Jimmy were already having marital difficulties but when he met Shelley it was all over
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they shared shifts at the hospital and Shelly taught Jimmy who was a big guy over 220 pounds how to throw her up in
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the air and catch her cheerleader style so you can picture what's going on in behind the scenes at this Hospital yeah
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maybe the these people need to spend more time trying to save people's lives than do gymnast tricks practice on
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finding that vein rather than backflips in the hallway so they're doing they're basically these
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two behaving like cheerleaders behind the scenes at this Hospital be aggressive passive aggressive so Jimmy
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and Shelley progressed to a full-blown Affair very quickly Jimmy became infatuated with Shelley both marriages
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no surprise here disintegrated soon after this and Shelley and Jimmy moved in together
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so Stephanie and they still have to work with this lady they have to work with everybody but it's it gets even more
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interesting Stephanie who continued to work with Shelley at the hospital started dating Shelley's
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ex-husband Rob Angus what yeah it's like a like a wife swapper and this car in this situation maybe a husband swap
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Double Dipper nipple liquor something Shelly and Jimmy quickly married and Shelly banned Jimmy from any contact
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with his ex Stephanie all right yeah because the most jealous people are are the ones that cheat well this is going
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to be difficult too because as you said Captain they all still work together all communication between the two of
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them hold on there there are a couple wine coolers away from just all having sex with each other well according to
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what I could find all communication between the two of them this is Jimmy and his ex Stephanie
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they have children together right all communication between the two of them had to go through Shelley this is one of
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Shelley's rules now Shelley had two kids a boy and a girl and Jimmy had a boy and
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a girl as well all about the same age but that's also the other problem is if he was cheating on his wife when he met
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you then for the rest of the time while he's with you you're going to be thinking he
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has the ability to cheat on me correct but I mean obviously everybody's doing this kind of behavior doesn't make it
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right so Shelley focused on integrating the two families you know kind of like a
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modern day Brady Bunch because of the respective custody Arrangements this is several days a week
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the Michael household Jimmy and Shelly consisted of a blended family of six people the two of them and the four kids
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two from each previous marriage and Shelley wanted to project a certain image for their family she pushed Jimmy
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to buy a large house that she wanted she dressed the children and herself and designer labels she volunteered at all
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of the kids stuff always taking charge the family went to church every Sunday dressed to the nines according to
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Jimmy's father Denny quote she meaning Shelley wanted everybody to think they were the perfect family end quote
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Shelley arranged for Jimmy to pay for her to get her master's degree in nursing even though it meant he had to
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take on more work to have better income I wonder if she was shocked when she got
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to church and they said thou shall not covet the neighbor's wife well Shelley ended up getting her master's degree and
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was offered a full-time job at Ruby Memorial in the Pediatric unit it seemed it was everything that she had
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ever wanted Jimmy started his own respiratory therapy company and it was doing well
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but then Shelly balked at the concept of working full-time she expected Jimmy's new business to
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start making lots of money very quickly she was disciplined by her job at the hospital a number of times and this was
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for taking unauthorized vacations I call that a no-call no-show unauthorized vacation
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Shelley started to look for different work something that she could do while staying at home she wanted to work from
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home and be with the kids by the way next week I have an unauthorized vacation right at least you're telling
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me about him we've already introduced the Michael's close friends remember Bobby and Kelly
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teets I never forget teats Shelley and Jimmy's exes Stephanie and Rob dated for a while but they split up and both
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married other people so this is this is a little bit confusing to follow here because it feels like this hospital is
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almost a few episodes of of the bachelor right Shelly also had a best friend named Renee who lived in another state
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and both Shelley and Jimmy had parents who were very close with them and active in their lives Jimmy's parents were
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Pastor Denny and Mom Ruth Michael Shelley's parents were whom we've already introduced Kathy and Michael
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gootz who divorced when Shelley was in college so now we have the background of everybody back to the scene of the house
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fire you might have the background but I'm I'm confused the important things to make mental note of
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here is this Hide Your Hide your husband the two hooked up divorced their exes and
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they're trying to have this blended family each brought two children with them to the family the their close
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friends are Bobby and Kelly teets who both Jimmy and Shelly are very close with fire scene Captain we have Bobby teats
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good friend showed up to his buddy's house and alerted firefighters to the fact that Jimmy was missing while they
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started to search for Jimmy Bobby tried to call Shelley who was on duty at her job at the pediatric department at Ruby
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Memorial he could not reach her so he called his own wife Kelly and asked her to try
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while he himself checked in with Rob and Stephanie to make sure there were no kids
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in the house right and thank God there were not all four kids actually spent the previous night out of the
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house they were with their their other parents so Kelly called the hospital and had her friend Shelly page
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when she got her on the phone Kelly said your house is on fire and no one can find Jimmy
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Shelley said oh my God hung up and told the clerk her boss I have to go my house is on
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fire the clerk's name is Nancy she later said that Shelly seemed emotionless as she
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stated this very matter-of-factly before Shelley left Shelley called her husband well hold on in defense
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how would you react I mean who knows how you'd react if somebody called me and said your house is on fire it's like
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well there's nothing I can do about it even if I run out of here with a Buckner extinguisher I'm not
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gonna be able to put put the fire out well but there are going to be a set of circumstances that are going to require
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us to reflect on all of these little right I think of information well I think as a parent the first thing is
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where are the kids oh I know the kids are safe okay things can be replaced so I'm just saying I just don't think
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that's uh the most damning of evidence so before she left she attempts to call her husband Jimmy
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cell phone and left a message the message was Jimmy where are you I just heard that our house is on fire where
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are you call me back yeah so Shelley leaves work she arrived at home and found her ex-husband Rob and
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her friends Bobby and Kelly teets waiting there to comfort her Jimmy's ex Stephanie and other friends
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and family soon arrived it was chaos as anyone would expect Shelley seemed despondent according to
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accounts saying over and over again find Jimmy and tell God to give Jimmy back but the weird thing was although she was
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described as visibly in shock no one saw Shelley Michael shed any actual tears any real tears the detective arrived on
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the scene at 11 18 am and he met with the lieutenant from the fire department to review the fire damage and see the
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body they discovered on the remains of the bed now the lieutenant told the detective
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that there were some very interesting and strange things about the fire there were red flags first
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only the bedroom only the master bedroom was burned the rest of the house was unscathed
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second the body they found which at this point you're presuming it to be that of
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Jimmy it was prone on the bed as if he slept through all of the smoke alarms the smell the
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Blaze the heat the whole thing right that doesn't make a lot of sense no not at all and Jimmy's parents Denny and
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Ruth were called by Kelly teets arriving at their son's home after noon on that day now after being told that Jimmy was
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dead his father Denny demanded to see his son's body and actually charged the front door when he was denied this
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request and he was so infuriated that he punched a police officer in the eye and had to
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be restrained he and his wife Ruth went to find Shelley their daughter-in-law to
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commiserate over their tragic loss and Denny found Shelley being comforted at a neighbor's home by her sister
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Jennifer then he hugged her and thanked her for loving his son to which Shelley responded quote I wish I would have
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loved him more of Jimmy's best friends from childhood arrived on the scene and he's trying to
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comfort Shelley and I bet he is when he went to express to her his condolences she looked at him and said something to
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the effect of did you get that outfit at bmos so this person is very taken aback it
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seemed like a very weird question I'm guessing that's like a clothing store yeah I've not heard of it
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but I mean I mean picture this is supposed to be a horrible tragic day again no one knows who how any of us
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would react right but it seemed to be very bizarre that she would be asking about someone's
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outfit and one neighbor asked Shelly if she could get her anything Shelley's response was a new husband
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so I you know who knows Jesus just just bizarre behavior I I don't care what anybody says I'm fine judging someone's
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Behavior the unrecognizable body on the bed at the Killarney drive home was definitively identified by dental
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records at 405 PM that day and of course sadly it was that of Jimmy Michael [Music]
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thank you [Music] [Music] all right we're back welcome to another episode of wife swap
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of the bachelor The Bachelor get your roses out hey me and the colonel are going to be handing out roses to all the
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ladies and kicking people out of the house left and right yeah so the detective on the scene Captain
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was able to do like a quick initial interview with Shelly this is as she's sitting at the neighbor's house now
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here's what Shelley told the detective happened in the hours leading up to the fire the detective wants to know and
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start putting together a timeline on everything right she said that Jimmy spent the Monday night this would be
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November 28th hunting in Pennsylvania with his father and then he coached his son's basketball practice that night
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until 9 pm his Co CK coach for the sun's team was his ex-wife's Stephanie's new husband Dan
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Dan and Stephanie had the kids that night and Dan and Jimmy made arrangements for
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handing off the kids on Wednesday Jimmy then went home after coaching the basketball team it was pretty late and
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he was very tired Shelley says when she got home she found Jimmy lying on the couch watching Monday Night Football
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they joked a little bit about him shooting I guess he he only shot a doe and not a buck on the trip Jimmy then
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went to bed and Shelly stayed up watching a cheer competition DVD both sets of kids again were with their
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other parents on that night at 5 15 a.m on Tuesday Shelly got up she kisses her sleeping husband Jimmy on the forehead
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and she gets ready for work she noted that the iron was on the ironing board in the bedroom
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Shelly arrived at work at 6 30 a.m this is half an hour early she tended to patience spoke with
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several co-workers and called Jimmy's cell phone and left a message at 7 24 am this is one of our very first clues that
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something is not not right here in my opinion at 7 24 am she leaves the following message she's asking Jimmy to
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pack the kids a lunch keep in mind this is even though they were not staying at their home or at their house
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that morning yeah but I could see it being maybe you get busy some weird thing where the parents forgot the other
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parents forgot so somebody needs a pack of lunch or bring them lunch money or something but still that's a little
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strange so she says then she tried calling the house phone after leaving the message she gets a busy signal so
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then she goes to her vehicle to retrieve her pager this is sometime around 8 20 am she told her supervisor that morning
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that she forgot her pager left it in the car I gotta go retrieve it she needs this for work
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then she got the call from Kelly teats telling her that the house was on fire and no one could find or locate Jimmy
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this was around 10 30 A.M okay so the detective noted some strange things as he spoke to Shelley he found
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the following about Shelley while talking with her and observing her and these were from his notes and his
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observations he says that Shelley wanted to be the center of attention she was more concerned about herself than her
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dead husband she wasn't asking the right questions and she had not cried not even
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for a second while in the presence of the detective of course this this lady wants attention she's doing backflips at
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work well now that it's established that Jimmy was deceased the detective is going to sit down with everybody in that
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Circle that cast of characters that we introduce you to and interview them one by one and here
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is what he learned from those interviews that the marriage seemed to be in quite some trouble
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Shelley had stopped sleeping with Jimmy and Jimmy was vocally not happy about this he's telling other people that the
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marriage is on the rocks and then he relays this story someone mailed one of Shelley's sweaters
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to Jimmy and it had a note attached to it that read keep your [ __ ] wife away from my
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husband so she's cheating again or at least someone's accusing her of such yeah well why would she have her sweater
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I don't know but Jimmy talked to several of his friends about this he asked for advice from his pastor and he was
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actively collecting and Gathering some names of divorce attorneys well in the difficult thing this is not that many
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years after he left his wife for Shelley Jimmy's new business was doing very well
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but not well enough that Shelley could stop working and Shelley did not want to work this is
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according to her circle of friends and family she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom she wanted to
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you know shop get her nails done well you know what I want to be an astronaut okay but not everything is possible well
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and then we have to compound that with we know she's in trouble at work she's already you know she's had trouble with
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her with her boss she's been taking these unauthorized vacations well she's probably trying to sleep with all of her
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co-workers husbands well the day that Jimmy died on that Tuesday was Shelley's first day
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back at work this is after three weeks off for a quote-unquote knee injury after falling down the front porch steps
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and taking three weeks sick leave from work now during that time that she's off of
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work to nurse her knee injury well it's like why go to work if you can't do backflips she managed to take her
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daughter out of state to a cheer competition to multiple cheer competitions during this time
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I get it you can drive and you can still be a parent while injured maybe you can't go to work but I think what the
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implication is here is that she may have needed time off from work from her shifts so she could take her child to
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these competitions and sounds like she wanted to be a cheer mom and so possibly she faked this injury to get a few weeks
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off of of work now Shelley was mean to Jimmy's son Drew this is by the accounts of others in their Circle and said that
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he picked on him incessantly to the point that others took obvious notice of this yeah that's not cool the other
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thing that the detective Learned was that Jimmy did not drink alcohol or do drugs the couple purchased a 500 000
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life insurance policy on Jimmy just six months earlier Shelley knew about the policy and in fact was the sole
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beneficiary of this policy Jimmy cell phone was found on the counter in the kitchen of the home on the day that he
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died and everyone the detective interview told him that Jimmy especially being a
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business owner was never without his cell phone even while sleeping he kept the phone on a
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nightstand next to the bed Jimmy was a very light sleeper according to others and would never have slept
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through a fire so the detective also spoke with Sean Alt now remember we talked about Sean
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ull in the trailer for today he's the neighbor who told the detective that he saw Shelly driving away from their home
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from Mike from the Michael house around 8 25 a.m and here's the kicker the detective heard rumors from several
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witnesses that Bobby teats Jimmy's close friend was having an affair with Shelley
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Michael oh the two not teats anybody but teats wait so but I got a question shouldn't she already be at work at this
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point so correct so I'm I I feel like she had to have some kind of ruse to her bosses or co-workers to get away from to
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leave work at some point well you uh you you would be a very good Sherlock Holmes
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there captain now Bobby and Shelly they were doing some kind of trying to start up some kind of small
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business together in their free time they went on a business trip to Chicago a week earlier
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and what the detective will find here is the two were visibly on video at the hotel kissing on surveillance footage
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and many people including Shelley's pastor and others noticed that Shelley was constantly being comforted by and at
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times even holding hands or lying on a bed with Bobby while his wife and Shelley's friend Kelly
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dealt with the funeral arrangements for Jimmy Mrs tits yeah so they're not very uh Shelly and Bobby are not very
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discreet about their affection for one another PDA fire inspectors looked at everything in the house to try to
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determine the cause of the fire they you know they're going to look at all the normal things water heater
00:36:41
wiring the furnace all were in good condition and it was relatively a new house so they were like like we already
00:36:51
know though the majority of the heat is coming from the master bedroom so even though you're gonna check out those
00:36:58
those items like I said there's there's some kind of accelerant or something used in that area unless they had you
00:37:06
know some like gas heater or possibly like a a gas fireplace or something in their bedroom yeah the short of their
00:37:14
investigation will be that the bed in the master bedroom was the epicenter of the fire this meant that it was
00:37:21
impossible that Jimmy had been asleep so he didn't he wasn't like overcome by smoke
00:37:29
from a fire and then passed out it was the fire he yes yes the fire was him in in around him immediately around him
00:37:39
you know they couldn't really explain away why he would just be lying there on the bed
00:37:45
now Jimmy basically to put it as simple as possible was incinerated and according to a book on the case called
00:37:54
playing with fire quote the body was so badly burned that the experienced fire investigator found it difficult to
00:38:02
visibly separate it from the charred remains of the box spring mattress one leg was completely missing and other
00:38:09
parts of the limbs had burned away there was a large hole on the left side of the
00:38:15
chest near the rib cage where tremendous heat had caused a blowout end quote this to the investigators made no sense
00:38:24
okay so they don't believe that hole to be like a a shotgun wound or a gunshot wound no no and the other thing too is
00:38:34
look if the fire started in the bedroom with Jimmy and everything was normal all
00:38:39
he had to do was get up and get out of the room and then get out of the house but of course we know that didn't happen
00:38:44
he just it was lying there right investigators could also they couldn't determine any accidental cause for the
00:38:52
fire so you know Jimmy didn't smoke and there was nothing wrong with the home's wiring or the systems they
00:38:59
couldn't pinpoint a a problem that would cause this this fire they also examined
00:39:05
the iron because remember Shelly had told them that it was faulty that the automatic shut off yeah didn't always
00:39:11
work and remember she said I think the iron was on that day I look I think people should just lock somebody up when
00:39:17
they go okay yeah and remember what do you remember Shelly oh yeah I was I was in the I was in the bedroom and yeah
00:39:24
there was iron there and a damnedest thing about the iron it has kind of a short there's kind of something wrong
00:39:30
with it anytime somebody's like trying to take that bread and Lead it down that trail just lock them up well what
00:39:38
they're going to do is the lieutenant Lieutenant will bring in a State Fire Marshal with a canine unit named Brady
00:39:45
trained to hit on accelerants and they walked through the Michael's home and of course the dog hit on 10 different spots
00:39:52
four in the pile of debris that fell to the living room remember that's the ceiling from the master bed right right
00:39:59
and hit on six spots in the master bedroom near the bed so no doubt it's the floor of the master bedroom the fire
00:40:06
was deliberate now do we know what kind of accelerant we do not we do not and we will not
00:40:14
spoiler alert okay the the problem here though captain for the fire investigators is that this fire behaved
00:40:22
in an unusual manner it burned for a long period of time but never expanded beyond the master bedroom until the
00:40:30
collapse of the floor and the flashover sometime around 10 30 a.m right they could tell this because the other
00:40:38
upstairs rooms only displayed a little just a tiny bit of smoke damage and really nothing else it's it's so crazy
00:40:45
how much fire can destroy evidence the same way water can destroy evidence again according to the book playing with
00:40:55
fire they state that the fire had to have progressed over a long period of time in a ventilation limited manner by
00:41:04
the way playing with fire is written by John Glatt and by this time Captain we know that some of the people involved in
00:41:12
this investigation know that Shelley had been seen leaving the house at 8 20 am the fire did not erupt from the room
00:41:21
until two hours later so they had to wonder the investigators fire investigators was it possible for a fire
00:41:28
to smolder for two hours incinerating just one room before finally flashing over that's the unusual behavior of this
00:41:36
fire in life Jimmy was six foot tall 220 pounds after the fire damage his corpse
00:41:43
weighed only 151 pounds by some miracle many of Jimmy's internal organs were intact and were available
00:41:53
for testing by the medical examiner now the good doctor was able to determine immediately that there was no carbon
00:42:01
monoxide in the victim's system this is incredibly important and no soot in his Airway meaning Jimmy was not breathing
00:42:09
during the fire so he wasn't in his dead before the fire he's dead before the fire started
00:42:16
and according to the autopsy his death did not appear to be the result of any natural causes his heart was perfectly
00:42:24
normal and there was no sign of any kind of physical event that would have killed
00:42:31
him so then the doctor is going to certify the cause of death as quote an undetermined homicidal act yeah because
00:42:40
we we wouldn't know because there's no skin we don't know if there's puncture wounds we don't know if they're what was
00:42:49
blood on the bed because it was all burnt up yeah so now we're going to have the detective who
00:42:57
wants to figure out we have the wife telling us she was at work all day but yet we have other we have a eyewitness
00:43:06
who says he saw her leaving their home at 8 20. so he's going to go to Ruby Memorial Hospital
00:43:14
he's going to interview everybody there and he's going to start pulling surveillance footage from the hallways
00:43:21
in the lobby of that hospital where Shelley worked here's what he ends up finding out he sees Shelley Michael you
00:43:28
know doing her Hospital duties doing her job well she goes out the front doors of the
00:43:34
hospital at 8 11 A.M she then walked through the rain to an employee parking lot started her car
00:43:43
turned on the wipers and turned left out of the lot this is on to Elmer Prince drive and then her and her vehicle are
00:43:53
now out of sight from the surveillance cameras then he does not see her again on any of the camera footage until about
00:44:01
8 25 a.m when he can see her silver Expedition coming back into the parking lot circling around and looking for a
00:44:11
parking spot she parked and walked under an umbrella back into the hospital entering the
00:44:16
lobby at 8 28 a.m there were 17 minutes where Shelley Michael was unaccounted for and remember Sean Alt had seen her
00:44:26
pulling out of her driveway during that 17-minute window he says his clock said 8 20 when he saw Shelley Michael
00:44:36
investigators set out to determine whether Shelley could have made it home set the fire and the return to the
00:44:42
hospital in 17 minutes so they drove from Ruby Memorial Hospital to the home remember it's less than one mile
00:44:52
so every time they're conducting this test the back and forth the back and forth
00:44:58
their trip to get from the hospital to the house is always about four to five minutes
00:45:06
right even if Shelley spent 10 total minutes driving back and forth if you go to the the the latter part of that she
00:45:15
would have had up to seven minutes inside the house this too poor and accelerant in the master bedroom and
00:45:22
light it investigators were able to replicate the drive within that window of time over
00:45:29
and over and over again now several people who knew Shelley found her actions to be very suspicious
00:45:37
and of course we want to know why Jimmy didn't escape the fire well like I said I I don't like the comment about the
00:45:45
iron in inside the the master bedroom definitely don't like the comment that she made saying oh well
00:45:54
now I need a new husband correct yeah no nobody wants to hear that at all one thing I find to be interesting here
00:46:02
Captain is some of the people on their inner circle found Shelley to be so strange on the day that Jimmy died that
00:46:11
even before it was ruled an homicidal Act they started providing information to the detectives
00:46:19
that's not going to put Shelley in the greatest of light right they basically several of her friends are the couple's
00:46:28
friends put together a list and send it over to the detective this is a list of drugs
00:46:34
that Shelley and other Hospital workers had access to at Ruby Memorial the other
00:46:39
thing too Captain is the professionals seem to think that it was possible that Jimmy was poisoned with some kind of
00:46:48
paralytic and these are people that worked at Ruby Memorial they said and named a drug requonium I
00:46:57
think is how you say that recur recronium um somewhere out there there's a medical
00:47:03
professional laughing at me this drug this particular drug is a paralytic and it was readily available
00:47:10
at the hospital where Shelly worked right but we've already had the autopsy performed now no narcotics were found in
00:47:19
Jimmy's system and an explanation for a paralytic required special testing so samples of
00:47:28
Jimmy's intact liver were sent to the National Medical Services organization in Pennsylvania so they could do the
00:47:34
test we need to note here too some suspicious findings a syringe was found in the sink in Shelley and Jimmy's
00:47:45
house right this syringe contained a large amount of ibuprofen and also an unidentifiable pink liquid
00:47:55
now the detective deliberately did not tell Shelley and Bobby that they are now considered suspects in
00:48:05
the murder of Jimmy Michael he has both of them come in for interviews and he speaks with them
00:48:12
separately Shelley had no idea that authorities believed Jimmy to have been killed by this point she and Bobby did
00:48:18
not know that the detective knew about their Affair either right that's what you want to do as a detective you're
00:48:24
going to stack the deck against these individuals interview them separately and see if they are answering you in an
00:48:31
honest manner Bobby broke down immediately confessing to the affair so much so he said that he
00:48:39
even slept with Shelley in her own bedroom while their two kids their kids were friends
00:48:46
uh had a sleepover in the Next Room right what a great guy this is while Jimmy was away I'm guessing maybe on a
00:48:54
hunting trip or something yeah a great guy great friend great teats three days before Jimmy died Bobby said it was just
00:49:02
a fling and that he did not love Shelley and he felt terrible about it in fact he
00:49:06
was going to reveal everything to his wife with an attempt to save his own marriage I don't think we need to get
00:49:13
into the whole interview with Shelley this was videotaped it was six hours long by the way
00:49:20
suffice it to say she lied her face off to the detectives and according to prosecutors what prosecutors would later
00:49:29
tell a jury that they believed she lied over 100 times during the course of this
00:49:35
videotaped interview she lied about the affair she lied about the Chicago trip and her activities on the morning that
00:49:42
Jimmy died she didn't know that they knew about her leaving the hospital and being seen by
00:49:49
Sean Alt during the course of this interview of course she didn't she told the detective that she had a theory of
00:49:55
her own and you've already kind of pieced this together that the iron must have caused the fire she was worried
00:50:02
that it was left on may have fallen over and started the fire and she did not bat an eye when the
00:50:11
detective informed her that the fire was now deemed an arson and that testing was being done to
00:50:17
determine what killed Jimmy she just asked what he knew and how he knew it when she left the interview she
00:50:24
expressed indignation that she was even being asked these types of questions that there was any suspicion on her at
00:50:32
all how dare you how dare you she was so mad about it that she called the detective later and asked to come in for
00:50:39
a lie detector test yeah that's that's never that's never smart and then the lie detector caught
00:50:49
fire and blew up and then she said maybe that's how the fire started so at her own request a polygraph was set up for
00:50:58
Shelley oh my God in the pretest because they do like a little pre-test interview
00:51:03
before they hook you up to the machine in the pretest she lied a hundred times in response to a question about what
00:51:10
type of person she was you know describe yourself she said quote I value honesty a lot
00:51:16
I've always tried to be very honest honesty comes first end quote what a [ __ ] what a beautiful human being then
00:51:25
they confronted her with the information about her vehicle leaving the hospital lot and returning 17 minutes later
00:51:33
she was adamant that she didn't leave the hospital until she suddenly remembered that because it was raining
00:51:42
she decided while I'm out there to retrieve my pager I should move my vehicle to a covered parking area
00:51:50
she hoped this would explain away why they could see her vehicle leaving the lot on surveillance footage
00:51:58
she said that she definitely did not leave the hospital parking lot she expressed concern that the polygraph
00:52:06
would make her out to be lying when she in fact was not so she decided you know she's the one says hey I'll
00:52:16
come in for a polygraph test they're like okay cool come right in and then in the pre-test interview she then says you
00:52:24
know what this polygraph test is going to make it look like I'm lying even though I'm not uh I'm not going to talk
00:52:30
with you anymore I'm not going to answer any more of your questions here's my attorney's phone number
00:52:37
so she lawyers up and shuts down and did she say by the way I'm sleeping with him
00:52:42
too all right I'm sleeping with everybody but before lawyering up she again tries
00:52:49
to explain away see this is what we get and we see this time and time again in these cases don't we Captain where a
00:52:56
detective will start to break down a witness or break down a suspect and where they might have been lying
00:53:03
before now they start using other lies to cover up like I'll give them a little bit of information I'll admit to this or
00:53:10
that but I'm going to use another lie to explain it away yeah so when pressed you
00:53:16
know they're saying look we know you left the parking lot there's no getting around that we have proof of that have
00:53:24
you watched the interrogation tapes yes I've watched portions of them it's it was six hours over the course of two
00:53:29
days I believe I would I like bang on the desk listen here you boner smoker tell me the truth
00:53:37
well she she came up with some story that she had to leave because there was something going on at her son's school
00:53:44
like she had to drop off some paperwork or something the story is a little confusing to me but the basics of it is
00:53:52
she had to leave for some reason that just popped up and she lied about it and stuck to her story because she was
00:54:00
already in trouble at work and didn't want them to find out that she had right an unauthorized leave for
00:54:07
just a couple of minutes now Bobby the boyfriend the uh that's Pete's that's doing the affair right was cleared by
00:54:15
police during their investigation of any involvement this is after he passed a polygraph test and more importantly
00:54:22
Bobby had an alibi for the day of the murder he was sleeping on somebody else's wife so between his confirmed
00:54:31
Alibi and him being honest with the detectives finally you know he said he broke down pretty quickly and passing
00:54:39
the polygraph they believe that his innocence were sealed in the mind of the detectives yeah but think about this a
00:54:48
little bit as far as the uh the whole True Crime Spectrum somebody like Chris Watts for example I
00:54:55
mean that guy he lied for a while but he didn't keep it up that long and a lot of these cases where the
00:55:06
females suspected of murder they almost can take the LIE to the Grave like you see this like with Casey
00:55:16
Anthony when they uh I work here okay show us your office they she goes all the way to the office
00:55:24
like like what does she think like magically like an office is just going to a a pier
00:55:31
you know same way with this case yeah there was a there was an iron I saw the iron and it had some faulty wiring maybe
00:55:41
maybe that's it it's almost like the character off of Saturday Night Live from way back in the day where they go
00:55:49
oh yeah that's the ticket right the well I will refer you to Christopher Rock's studies on the difference between men
00:55:58
and women lying uh and I think that will explain away everything for you now on January 9th Shelley filed a personal
00:56:06
loss claim amounting to 194 thousand dollars with Jake from State Farm Insurance you know that you said Jake
00:56:15
from Allstate last time I I have Allstate and I confused which I I think I called you a dumb dumb during that but
00:56:22
I never caught you so I guess I was the dumb dumb as well yeah they only have 10
00:56:27
000 commercials of each a day I don't know how anybody could I'm sure there's a Jake at Allstate she ended up
00:56:32
collecting a hundred and forty thousand dollars this is after she paid Wells Fargo who owned the mortgage on the home
00:56:41
and now she's going to be waiting for the half million dollar life insurance policy
00:56:48
and she thought she got away with it fire investigators pouring over the burn scene on their hands and knees on
00:56:56
January 23rd found something they had missed before about three feet under the end of the remains of the bed this is
00:57:04
buried under other burned debris was a distinctive orange plastic item that had been protected from the fire
00:57:14
simply because it was buried this was a syringe cap Shelley denied ever taking any drugs
00:57:22
from the hospital and there was no known reason for a syringe to be in the bedroom
00:57:30
then in February of 2006 the final talks report came back from the national Medical Services
00:57:37
and Jimmy's heart blood was found with large amounts of that recronium chromium I'm not never going to be able to say
00:57:45
that right I can say it until you turn on this microphone right that's how this goes down the cause of death was amended
00:57:53
to homicide by being intentionally injected by a lethal dose of this drug by another person no one believed that
00:58:02
Jimmy could have done this to himself a warrant was issued for Shelley's arrest on charges of first-degree murder
00:58:09
and first degree arson in March she was indicted for both and entered pleas of not guilty as if this was not enough
00:58:18
captain her parents posted her 450 000 bond for her and she was required to remain on
00:58:26
home confinement while she waited for her trial so they put her on you know the the beautiful ankle monitoring
00:58:34
bracelet yeah it's not that far-fetched to think that possibly uh Jimmy would be
00:58:40
suicidal because his marriage is going bad but his business was going well but this is also kind of a this is also
00:58:49
a very strange way for somebody like him to take his life and then that doesn't explain how the fire got started right
00:58:59
it it doesn't add up it makes zero sense for that to logically play out yeah because one thing I do know is a dead
00:59:08
body can't start a fire correct there's no if you listen to the Billy Joel song he never once
00:59:16
mentions a dead body started in the fire so during this time where she's supposed
00:59:21
to be on home confinement with the monitoring bracelet it was quickly learned that she violated her home
00:59:28
confinement requirements time and time again sneaking off several times people reportedly saw her all over Morgantown
00:59:38
regularly by the time of her trial it was determined that she had broken off the ankle bracelet six times at least
00:59:45
six times and taped it back together so at some point the judge revoked her home
00:59:50
confinement and Shelley found herself back in jail this was one month before the trial I mean in all fairness so it's
00:59:58
hard to do backflips with that those ankle monitors on so the thing here though too is we still have to explain
01:00:06
away why the fire would behave in an unusual manner because you're gonna have to take this thing to trial present your
01:00:15
theory to the judge and jury and convince them that you you know what you're talking about and this is how you
01:00:22
know that she killed her husband so there were painstaking portions to this fire investigation
01:00:31
the investigators took samples of the carpet wood tile paint flooring Windows bedding and mattress from the master
01:00:41
bedroom they constructed six exact replicas of the bedroom down to each item of furniture even the wall paint identical
01:00:53
and the bathroom tile this is just so they could burn them to determine exactly how the fire went down and why
01:01:00
it was behaving in this manner this was all funded by the ATF to the tune of one million dollars it
01:01:09
was done in a giant Hangar and took months the agency viewed this as an opportunity
01:01:15
to study the nature of smoldering fires because the theory was that Shelley set the fire at 8 20 A.M remember when she
01:01:23
was seen leaving the home and it did not destroy the home or even become noticeable until two hours later it had
01:01:31
to have smoldered but not gone out but also not erupted into a full-fledged fire for quite some time
01:01:40
the test involved various conditions and accelerants and three irons identical to
01:01:46
Shelley's were used even with the automatic shut off disabled they never got the iron never
01:01:54
got hot enough to cause a fire so the iron theory is ruled out it was determined that the headboard
01:02:02
must have eventually caught fire burned and collapsed through the floor underneath it
01:02:09
the investigators tried different cycles for the heating and ventilation systems
01:02:15
to try to replicate exactly how the fire had smoldered for two hours before combusting again from the book quo these
01:02:25
tests all demonstrated that the fire's progress was directly related to the heating system going on and off
01:02:33
if the furnace had not been working at the Michael's house the fire would have soon gone out and if it had been turned
01:02:40
up too high it would have raged out of control within 30 minutes they finally found the correct combination with the
01:02:49
home HVAC system to set a cycle at 10 minutes on 15 minutes off they set the bed a light closed the door
01:02:59
that's important the door had to be closed for the fire to behave this way right and allowed the air handler to
01:03:07
cycle on and then off in that pattern 10 minutes on 15 minutes off the fire smoldered small Flames glowed and then
01:03:15
two hours and 10 minutes into the burn the headboard collapsed and burned right through the full floor they got the fire
01:03:24
to act the exact way that it acted that day conditions were plausible in their house
01:03:31
not only so much so it was also 100 plausible that Shelley Michael could set the fire 8 20 a.m and the flashover
01:03:40
didn't occur until 10 20 10 27 a.m correct so now we're at the trial the trial commenced on July 9 2007 and
01:03:51
would take more than two weeks with 37 Witnesses for the prosecution alone to sum up here is the evidence presented
01:03:58
against Shelley at her trial they said Jimmy was killed with recronium a paralytic that Shelley had
01:04:06
access to and had administered to patients in the past the fire in the Michael home was
01:04:12
deliberately set in the master bedroom with Aid of an accelerant After Jimmy was already deceased
01:04:19
Shelley left the hospital and was unaccounted for for 17 minutes on the morning that Jimmy died and which time
01:04:25
she could have got home and back and set the fire Shelley was the sole beneficiary of a
01:04:33
five hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy on Jimmy and if the house had been consumed by the fire she
01:04:41
would have got another half a million dollars she was having an affair with Bobby
01:04:46
teats she lied to police over and over again so it is still a circumstantial case
01:04:55
yeah the prosecution showed the jury hours and hours of videotaped interviews with Shelley where she is caught lying
01:05:04
to detectives they called a medical expert to the stand who dramatically plunged a syringe into a grapefruit to
01:05:13
show how quickly the drug could be injected it took less than one second for him to
01:05:19
depress the plunger and here is what the testimony was that would happen to Jimmy per the medical
01:05:28
examiner they stated that within one minute Jimmy would start to feel muscular weakness within three minutes he would
01:05:37
be unable to stand four minutes he would lose the ability to breathe as his lungs
01:05:44
and respiratory muscles froze up he would have been fully conscious and aware of what was happening essentially
01:05:52
suffocating as his blood oxygen was used up basically being tortured from the inside out
01:06:00
he would then lose Consciousness and die the total time for all of this to take place and Jimmy unable to do anything
01:06:07
about it 13 minutes wow the prosecutor told the jury that their theory was that Shelley
01:06:14
had injected Jimmy with the paralytic while he slept and then turned on the iron and left it
01:06:21
where it would catch fire to the bed or some clothes or or the floor or what have you
01:06:25
she then goes to work 30 minutes early that's a red flag in itself this woman doesn't like to go to work and on this
01:06:31
day she's showing up early yeah now there's all the evidence she needs she gets in there early and now she's she's
01:06:39
very visible very loud and vocal so people take notice that she is there she leaves Jimmy a voicemail about the
01:06:48
lunches for the kids who were not even at the house at that time but by 8 10 A.M
01:06:55
the prosecution says Shelley started to get nervous that no phone call came in about the house being on fire
01:07:03
so she's already injected this guy she's got to cover up her murder so she had to drive home
01:07:12
set a fire more carefully using some type of accelerant one thing that is interesting about the
01:07:18
trial though and in her defense as we stated earlier captain the prosecution at no time do they ever
01:07:25
present what the believed accelerant they could have been used was I found that to be a little a little
01:07:33
problematic here I agree then she with the you know flick of a lighter or what have you the prosecution
01:07:42
demonstrated this and because she closed the bedroom door behind her she wouldn't
01:07:48
have known to do this but because she did the fire failed to ignite and burn out of control and destroy all of the
01:07:56
evidence that she was hoping would be destroyed so the syringe the the syringe cap
01:08:02
um and she was probably looking to collect the insurance money on the house as well
01:08:07
the defense tried to cast blame on others they showed that anyone at the hospital could have had access to the
01:08:14
drug including Jimmy's ex-wife Stephanie including Jimmy himself who they tried to suggest that he possibly
01:08:22
killed himself using this drug they pointed out that all of the evidence against Shelley was simply
01:08:28
circumstantial they called only five witnesses in her defense and they did call Shelley to the stand how many times
01:08:37
did she lie on the stand well let's get into that because once on the stand she's going to tell an
01:08:44
entirely new version of the events of the day of the fire one in which she actually stopped at her house and put
01:08:51
some paperwork in the mailbox before heading back to work so now she's got to explain away why Sean Alt saw her
01:08:59
pulling out of the driveway and that's the excuse or lie that she comes up with uh she did say on the stand that she did
01:09:06
not believe that Jimmy would have killed himself but again she's unaccounted for 17
01:09:12
minutes she lied over 100 times to the detectives and then you know she's a nurse so she has some
01:09:21
expertise in this area on the stand they're going to ask her to describe what someone's slow death from this drug
01:09:31
would be and she says quote it would be horrible end quote but again no tears no emotion
01:09:42
after five hours on the stand Shelley's attorney later said that she was absolutely completely
01:09:48
convinced that she had won well she was wrong although it took the jury more than one day of deliberations
01:09:56
they unanimously found Shelley guilty of both murder and arson Shelly very nearly got away with murder
01:10:05
I mean think about it if she had not closed the door to the bedroom and if Sean all had not seen her leaving
01:10:12
her house things might have gone entirely different for her what's shocking in her case to me is the
01:10:21
arrogance she displayed throughout the whole process and she really did not think for a minute that she would get
01:10:27
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with fire the true story of a nurse her husband and a marriage turned fatal by John Glatt and it's available in
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